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Whew! The summer is over.
Don’t get me wrong. I actually like nice weather — I like it a lot. The problem is around the Seattle area, we don’t actually have nice weather in the summer. Or ever, really (this is my plug for people to NOT move here… not that we don’t like people, but………).
But for me, there is something about Fall that calls to me. January 1st is never really my “new year” as much as September 1st. I love the back-to-school supplies, the new shoes, the crisp, golden air… these are my new beginnings.
Today was spent ushering three kids off to their first day of school, tending to a sick 1 year old, researching cabins that sleep 14 for a girls weekend away, deciding if I could tolerate even one episode of Sponge Bob, and eating a frozen Gryo. Life still goes on, but I am ready to write.
So, I am back.
Welcome back, self!
About a year and half ago, the world lost little Ben… he was three years old. Today, his parents press on and have started The Ben Towne Foundation to help combat childhood cancer.
Ben’s mom, Carin, is an equisite writer. She blogged via the Caring Bridge website and brought such raw reality to their struggle with Ben’s cancer and then their loss. Almost half a MILLION visitors read Ben’s story. She is now going to blog on their new site and share the next chapter in their — and Ben’s story — through their new venture with the foundation. I do encouage anyone… everyone… to check it out. Ben story was… is… an amazing one that I know I will never forget.
Click here to read my post about Ben.
Click here to go to Caring Bridge and read Ben’s whole story.
Click here to go to the Ben Towne Foundation.
Bring kleenex.
§ June 25th, 2010 § Filed under Announcements § Tagged Me Ra Koh Comments Off
Me Ra over at Me Ra Koh Photography is going through some pretty heavy family stuff with her dad in the hospital after a very serious accident. To read about her journey over this past week, click here.
Today I am the guest blogger over on her site to help her out a bit. If you feel like it, head on over to read about what happened when I TRIED to write a blog post and failed. Click here.
Yes, Mamabloo et al are still here, I am just having one of those weeks where I keep asking myself, “who in the heck is in charge of the schedule around here because they clearly don’t know what they are doing?”
Clearly.
It doesn’t help that the family scheduler is also the author of this blog and has a doozie of a case of writer’s block to top it all off. I am not sure that sentence was even grammatically correct. Oh well.
One piece of business before I sign off. To all of you out there you have sent in submissions to write for MamaBloo….THANK YOU. All the submissions are truly great and I am super sorry that I have not replied to you. But I will. I promise. Give me a day or two to survive the killer of a swim meet this weekend and to graduate my 6th grader and to attend my last preschool board meeting and to get two kids to the dentist while the other two need to be at another swim meet and to buy some birthday presents, have two five year old playdates and a well-child check up for Ty, a retirement party for a friend, and… well.. you get the picture. Replies coming soon. Really.
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